Vote to get Sally in The Voice final

It’s up to the public, including Loughborough and Shepshed Echo readers, to help her into the finals

Sally Barker is pictured performing on the first live show of BBC show The Voice

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“LOUGHBOROUGH, please vote for me!”

That’s the message from Sally Barker this week after making it through to the semi-finals of BBC singing competition The Voice.

Sally, aged 54, who is originally from Barrow-upon-Soar and now lives in Lutterworth, has been performing since the age of 18 and still performs locally.

With coach Sir Tom Jones on her side, she has sailed through the auditions, battles, knock-outs and, last weekend, the first stage of the lives, where she was chosen by Sir Tom as his ‘fast pass’, meaning she was saved from the public vote.

But Sir Tom can’t save her now – and so it’s up to the public, including Loughborough and Shepshed Echo readers to help her into the finals as she competes in a Leicestershire battle against fellow Team Tom member Bizzi Dixon, of Leicester, in the semi-finals tomorrow (Saturday, March 29).

Speaking to the Echo straight after “some piano routining with Tom”, Sally said she was pleased to have had her mum Dorothy in the audience last week to see her go through, alongside her two sons, Dillon and Ben, and her sister, who is also called Dorothy.

This weekend two of her friends will join her sons in the crowd.

“I would have liked to have found out what it was like to face the public vote,” she said.

“It feels like I’ve coasted through because there’s a connection with myself and Tom. Now I actually have to find out what the public think.

“For me, especially in Leicester, Bizzi knows he’s got a lot of support but I don’t.

“We are mates and that’s the bottom line. There’s a professional rivalry there, it’s good-natured and neither of us will get overly upset that we are being chosen over the other one.

“I always focus on the job in hand and the songs I have got to sing, everything else I’m not in control of. I’m so looking forward to singing with Tom.